1999/09/13 by Valeri V. Dvoeglazov, Sergei V. Khudyakov
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
published as in "Problems of Modern Physics" (SSU-JINR volume), D2-99-263 (1999) 116-123 · ReVTeX file, 9 pp., no figures. This is an invited paper for SSU-JINR collection on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Saratov State University
arxiv created 1999/09/13 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
In the old papers of Ogievetskii and Polubarinov, Hayashi, Kalb and Ramond the \it notoph concept, the longitudinal field originated from the antisymmetric tensor, has been proposed. In our work we analyze the theory of antisymmetric tensor field of the second rank from a viewpoint of the normalization problem. We obtain the 4-potentials and field strengths, which coincide with those which have been previously obtained in the works of Ahluwalia and Dvoeglazov. Slightly modifying the Bargmann-Wigner field function we conclude that it is possible to describe explicitly the degrees of freedom of the photon and of the \it notoph by the same equation. The physical consequences, such as parity properties of field functions, are discussed, relations to the previous works are discussed as well. Moreover, we derive equations for \it symmetric tensor of the second rank on the basis of the same modification of the Bargmann-Wigner formalism, i.e. the equations which describe dynamical behavior of the fields of maximal spin 2.